Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 305, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1900 — Page 4

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The Journal's Redaction in Price A wrong impre5Slon seems to prevail among certain of the subscribers to The Journal, namely, that the recent reduction in the subscription price, of the paper was only temporary, and that a return to former rates would take effect when the campaign closes. This is an error. The present published price of the paper will be permanently maintained and its high standard will in no way be impaired. Send in your subscriptions to us at the published rates or have the paper delivered to you by our agent in your locality. What cheap Joke will the Bryanites put out today? Messrs. Bryan and Crolxer are not making any demand for a fair vote and an honest count In any Southern State. The Bryan demand for a reduction of the army was carried Into effect In Luzon by his friend Aguinaldo by killing seven and wounding twelve soldiers last week. If Mr. Bryan wants to live In a country where there are no corporations .or combinations of capital he -ehould go to Central Africa, Kamtchatka or Patagonia. The more adroit Bryanites arc wishing today that the fool killer had overtaken the knave who wrote the bogus Cleveland Interview before he unloaded that boomerang upon the public. While the Bryanites are trying to array wage-earners against those who pay wages, quietly ask those with whom you meet if they prefer the present times to those of Xour years ago. It would seem that the putting out of a fraudulent statement by political managers like that which was designed to harm Eugene Saulcy is a fit toric for the investigations of the grand Jury. Croker first came into prominence as the slayer of a man In a political brawl; now ho urges rioting and bloodshed at every voting place If the Bryanites conclude that ihey have not had fair play. The settlement of the coal strike 'n Pennsylvania is duo to the circumstance that the officers of the miners' organization combated the Bryanite organs which appealed to the passion of hate. b For those employed in the building trade the election of McKinley means extensive construction the coming season. General Wallace is not tho only man who will not put up a large building if Bryan should be elected. "Our credit Is so good," said Secretary Gare at Philadelphia, "that government bonds bearing 2 per cent, interest command a premium in the market." Doe3 any sane person believe that this crcdl". would be maintained under an administration headed by William J. Bryan? A recent issue of the South Bend Times (Dem.) contained a long editorial under the caption "How Shall the Farmer Invest Ills Income?" It does not require much effort to remember that under the good old Democratic times of four years ago few farmers had any income to invest. The Increase of population in Indiana the past decade appears to have been 221,05:), or 1S.23 per cent. This is doing fairly well, but the general expectation was that it would be somewhat larger, the estimate being rated upon the growth of the cities. Still. 2,STu,13J inhabitants makes a goodsized State, and the gain enables Indiana to hold Its old rank of eighth in the order of population. Within the last two or three days there has been a. general outcry on the part of Democratic manarer3 and newspapers of wholesale frauds contemplated by the Republlcans. "Boss" Croker. Mr. Bryan. Chairman Jone?, Mayer Harrison of Chicago, ami many Bryan organs, including the Indianapolis Sentinel, have all raised the same cry. Is this a mere coincidence, or is It Intended to break the force of their inevitable defeat? Governor Tanner of Illlrois, says that the coal minor in Illinois are to-day receiving the highest wirres and are on the highest plane of prosperity in the history of the business. In Ibv7 the pr.ee for mining coal was 25 cents a ton; now it U 43 centi. In 1S03 there wer 17.725,14 tons of coal mined in Ulincla, as agalnet 23.434.417 ton la The coalition are much the

ame In the bituminous coal field of Indl- I

ana. It is Incredible that men who are experiencing such prosperity should vote to "shoot Niagara" and risk the untold disasters of Bryanism. COLD on mi VAN, "WHICH? . Notwithstanding Mr. Bryan's violent abuse of gold the fact that there is at this time more gold in the treasury of the United States than has ever been accumu-" lated there before will be regarded by all Intellifont persons as a sign of sound national ,:nancesv Mr. Bryan says that gold makes the rich richer and the poor poorer; that it Is arrogant and tyrannical in time of peace, de.erts any nation in time of war; that it causes hard times, poverty and crime; that it is a coward, a tyrant, an oppressor, etc. He Invests it with a kind of personality and makes it a very wicked and vindictive thing, yet in spite of all this every person who holds a United States note will be rather pleased than otherwise to know that the gold now In the treasury amounts to pi, 477, 407. This is greater than the gold holdings of the national banks of France and Russia combined, and 50 per cent, greater than those of Germany or Great Britain. The sum is beyond the power of the mind to grasp, and yet it falls far short of representing all the gold In the country. The national banks have over $3)0.090,000 In their vaults, and it Is estimated that private banks, trust companies and other financial Institutions have nearly as much more. During the last three years the government has received gold to the value of $CC2.G05.1S3 in payment of customs duties a much larger sum than was received during the whole of the last Democratic administration. During that administration, also, it was necessary to resort several times to sales of bonds in order to maintain the necessary reserve fund of gold in the treasury. The gold now in the treasury exceeds the reserve fund by more than $300, 000.0O). Competent Judges estimate the amount of gold now In the country at more than $1,000,000.000. Thl3 great stock of gold has been brought into the treasury and into the country at large by the prosperity and confidence born of Republican legislation and administration. It Is mainly due to the restoration of confidence caused by the election of Mr. McKinley in 1S06. It has come as quietly and noiselessly as a summer rain, and it has remained here to fertilize and invigorate every branch of trade and business. There Is not a man. woman or child in the United States who is not benefited by it directly or Indirectly. It has increased our currency, strengthened the national credit, improved our standing among the nations, restored confidence, stimulated enterprise and contributed greatly to the prosperity which will make the year 1D00 memorable In American annals. Yet Mr. Bryan continues to denounce gold as If It were a public enemy and menace to the peace and welfare of the country. His denunciations amount to nothing, but his election would amount to a great deal. If he were elected the visible supply of gold would soon become invisible, the great store in the treasury would quickly be exhausted, confidence would collapse, enterprise would cease and a panic would ensue compared with which the hard times of 1893-96 would appear trivial. Had we better not keep our gold and let Mr. Bryan go? nil VAX AND OVERN3IENT DY INJUNCTION. Mr. Bryan's recent remarks about government by injunction, addressed to a railroad president who had said that he would countermand an order for a large number of cars if Mr. Bryan should be elected, recall the days when the injunction process was last employed on the motion of an attorney general of the United States. It was during the Debs strike Ell over the West, In June and July, 1S94. Mr. Olney, now favoring the election of Mr. Bryan, as attorney general Instructed his subordinates to ask for injunctions restraining the strikers from interfering with the running of mall and interstate trains. They did so, and the Federal Judges, who had been appointed from both parties, Issued the restraining orders. This was the last exercise of what is denounced as "government by injunction" by United States authorities. Congress was then in session and Mr. Bryan was a member of the House. On July 16, 1S94, Mr. McCreary, of Kentucky, now supporting Mr. Bryan, offered the following resolution and asked a suspension of the rules that it might be passed : Resolved, That the House of Representatives indorse the prompt and vigorous efforts of the President and his administration to suppress lawlessness, restore and prevent improper interference with the laws of the United States and with the transportation of the mall of the United States, and with interstate commerce, and pledges the President hearty support, and deems the success that has already attended hi efforts cause for public general congratulation. Thirty minutes were allowed under the rules for debate, fifteen on each side. A Colorado Populist and the late Representative Bland -w-re the only members opposing the resolution, which indorsed the use of Federal troops in Illinois in the face of the protest of Governor Altgeld and the exercise of the injunction of the Federal Courts. The late Mr. Bland denounced the action of the administration as imperialistic and begged the House not to commit itself to imperialism. The yeas and nays were refused on the passage of the resolution, not enough members voting to demand them. It arrears that William Jennings Bryan was present in the House that day, as his name is recorded in a roll call which followed soon after. There Is no evidence showing that at that time Mr. Bryan even so much as voted to demand a roll call so that he might go on record against a resolution applauding "government by injunction." wn.i. im take Tim risk? In one of the speeches delivered toward the close of the last session of Congress Mr. Iaccy, of Iowa, there is shown. In parallel columns, the failures, shut-downs, strikes and wage reductions as published by Bradstreet's, the well-known commercial paper, during the hard years between July 1. 103. and the beginning of the resumption of labor, the opening of new mills and the increase of wages which began in July, 1S97, after the election of Mr. McKinley. The left of these parallel columns is a record of increasing disaster, failures, the shutting . down of factories and cut after cut in wages and strike after strike to resist reductions which were met by closing factories. The right column is a record of triumphant progress, the opening of closed f actorlea, the building of new

works, the gradus. advance of wages, often three advances between July, 1S97, and December, 100. On July 22, 1893. there was a record of the closing of many shoe factories in Massachusetts and the closing of factories which had been run on short time in Cincinnati. On July 21, 1S37, among other Items showing' the improvement of industries is the starting up of cotton mills in Massachusetts employing 3,000 hands, notices of 10 per cent, increase of wages in several iron works, 20,000 men going to work in the sheet-steel mills, the Blgelow carpet works in Massachusetts starting up with 900 hands. These are but samples. August, 1S93, is a continuous record of business failures and closing factories, while the record for August, 1S97, is orvj of factories and mills that have "resumed." In December, 1S93, the record Is the doleful story of discharged men and reduced wages, while the parallel column in December, 1897, Is devoted to Increases of wages. March, 1834, begins with the statement that the "public census of the unemployed In Brooklyn, N. Y., shows 46,683 men out of employment," followed by a long list of wage reductions. Opposite this discouraging record is that of March, 1893, which tells of the employment of several thousand men at increased wages. The' Journal has no space for this Interesting and Instructive comparison of four years of depression, lack of employment and decreasing wages with the years of increasing employment and wages and of general prosperity "which have continued until the present time, and will continue, in all probability, if Mr. McKinley shall be reelected. On the other hand, the general opinion of business men is that a panic would follow the election of Mr. Bryan because of the uncertainty as to what he and

his reckless followers would do. In view of. these facts the good times which came with McKinley and the dreary days of 1894, 1S95 and 1836 which preceded can the really sensible wage-earner take the risk of changing these promising conditions for Mr. Bryan? Following is a statement from official sources of the number of men employed and wages paid on the Logansport division of the Panhandle Railroad in 1S96 and nine months of 1900, and the increase of both In three years: In 1S96, average number of men employed each month (all grades) 2,248 In 1900 nine months), average number of men employed each month..... 2,704 Increase under McKinley, 456 men. In September, l&G, number of men employed In all grades 2,156 In September, 1900, number of men employed in all grades 2.720 Increase under McKinley, 564 men 20 per cent. In 1S96 these men were paid $1,2S3,444 In 1900 (nine months) these men were paid 1.513.1S1 Increase under McKinley, S2S3.637. In 1900, the number of men employed over 1S9C increased 20 per cent. In 1900, 2.740 men received 13 per cent, more wages each than 2,218 men received in 1S96. In September, 1900. 2,720 men received $27,226 more wages than 2,156 men In September, 1SW. In September, 1900, 1.338 men In C. and T. department received $14,147 more than l.OsG men in September, 1S96. In September, 1900, 658 men In shops received $2,678 more than 632 men in September, 1S96. In September, 1900, 703 men in M. W. and Tr. department received $10,399 more than 433 men In September, 1S96. Secretary Gage has WTltten a letter to a worklngman In Boston showing how free coinage at 16 to 1 would affect the valuo of tho silver dollar, which contains about 50 cents worth of silver. Mr. Gage says: At present nobody gets one of them except from the government, and upon delivery to the government of $1 m gold, or one gold dollar's worth of services r;dered or goods delivered. The government thus having received the value of one gold dollar in exchange can afford to give back a gold dollar or a gold dollar's worth of value in exchange for the silver dollar when presented for redemption, and thus the parity between the silver dollars now coined and gold is maintained. But if tho mints were opened, for the free coinage for everybody that possessed the metals without any guaranty of parity with gold from anybody. It is plain to be seen that the value of both when coined would soon sink to the exchangeable value of the metals they respectively contained. In other words, the silver dollar would sink to its actual value of about 50 cents, gold would disappear entirely from circulation, and the country would go upon a silver basis. The sworn statement of Flnley Anderson that ho was hired by Lawyer Campbell and Justus Goebel to swear falsely in the case against Caleb Towers shows what kind of methods the Kentucky man-hunters have been using. Anderson says he received altogether about $3(0 for giving testimpny which he now swears was absolutely false, and that he was coached in the matter by Campbell and Goebel. If they bribed him they doubtless bribed other witnesses. Before a Judge who had any sense of right or justice this would lead to a new trial, but nobody can tell what will happen In Kentucky. It ought to cause the disbarment of Lawyer Campbell, who was disbarred many years ago In Ohio. Republicans need not lose any sleep over the preposterous claims and predictions the Democratic managers are making. Four years ago yesterday Chairman Jones, of the Democratic national committee, Issued a statement claiming the electoral votes of California, Michigan, North Dakota, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Oregon and West Virginia, and said that Mr. Bryan's chances were the best in the States of Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin. Every one of the States named went for McKinley. Jones doesn't know any more about the situation now than he did In 1S96. If the tariff is the mother of trusts there are other mothers. An Englishman in the current number of the Review of Reviews gives a list of ten trusts recently organized in England, of which the smallest capital is $11,000,000 and the largest $15,000,000. The writer says his list only con tains some of the largest trusts of recent formation, and that there are many others in England. The fact is, the combinations of capital and of manufacturing concerns which we call trusts exist in every com merclal country, and the tariff has little or nothing to do with them. "Great is Tammany, and Croker is its prophet!" The man thus exalted by Mr. Bryan ha urged lawlessness In the following word.: My advice to Democratic voters the coun try over Is to consivgaU about the polling places on tne evening 01 tuction say. count noses, and then, if th election returns for Bryan don't tally with their count, to go into the polling places and throw those fellows In charge of the returns Into the street. In his letter to the Morgan Engineering Company at Alliance, u., president McKinley aaid: "May this great meeting atamp

with Its disapproval the wicked doctrine

of class distinction, which has no place In our free government, and mark a dis tinct advance in good relations between employe and employer." While Mr. Bryan is doing his best to array class against class and to stir up strife between employe and employer the Republicans are fortunate In having a candidate who can consistently deplore that sort of thing. Republicans are warned to be on the outlcok for the disreputable tricks of the des perate Bryanites, four of which have already been exposed: the bogus militia enrollment In Dubois county, the advice to colored men to cross their ballots at the bottom to indicate their opinion about disfranchisement, the getting of receipts from voters for $1 in Bloomlngton, and tho antlSaulcy forgery In this county. The managers know that they are beaten on a straight and fair vote, so they resort to frauds to frighten or disfranchise voters. As the day of the election approaches the Bryanite leaders are desperate with desperation of defeat. In the defeat of Bryan Croker sees his downfall In Greater New York; hence his appeal to violence. While Mr. Bryan has been worrying about the young man Absalom's welfare he has overlooked Absalom's finish, and the strik ing similarity between the young man's method of locomotion and his own. The record reads: "And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went'under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away. And ten young men that bare Joab's armor compassed about and smote Absalom and slew him." II Samuel xviii, 9-15. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Theatrical Nem. "Does that new 'Ophelia' rive satisfaction f" "Oh. yea; he's th dressiest Ophelia I ever saw on the stage." A Prophecy aa to Extinction. "We had the biggest' Bryan blowout yet last night." " "Oh, no; you'll have a bigger Bryan blowout next week Bryan's going to blow clear out." An Aspirins Citizen. "My; I wish I could get on that committee." "What committee?" "Why. the committee appointed to ro next week and notify Bryan that h len't elected." The Way of It. Jones What possessed that political orator to make such wild misstatements? Brown Well, he claims that he wanted to test whether or not his own party reads his speeches. Limited lint Enthnslaatlc. "Did you hear what Aunt Minerva said?" "No; what was lt?' - , "She said that when McKinley is elected sha and Aunt LuvinJa are going to have a torcnUght parade." . . ANNUAL MEETING " HELD INDIANAPOLIS BEXEVOLEXT CIETY'S STATEMENT.' SO. A Review of the Year's "Work and Financial Statement Election of Olllcera. At the annual, meeting of .tho Indianapolis Benevolent Society, held , at the charity . rooms In Plymouth building yesterday, the following report was read and adopted: "Clustering around the Charity Organization Society are many societies for bettering the conditions of our poor and delinquent people; one of these is tho Indianapolis Benevolent Society, differing from some others in that its funds are nearly , all drawn from the Charity Organization , Society, but like many others is controlled by a special committee, whose orders are carried out by the general force of organized charity workers. The Indianapolis Benevolent Society is the 'golden book or relief side of the city charity work. It is in no sense an executive society, but simply a relief agency. The giving of food, fuel and clothing to the helpless poor is its mission; it is the one society from which, when all other sources fail, relief must be drawn. It is not limited to any special line of relief, being only restricted in Its usefulness by the usual complaint of the lack of funds. However no one Is allowed to suffer and all needs are met promptly and liberally. "The Flower Mission Is a great relief to this branch of tho work, hi that it cares for the sick in their homes which otherwise would fall to the Indianapolis Benevolent Society. The two societies are, as it were, sisters of charity, one whose mission it is to soothe and comfort the sick and the ether to lighten the burden of some struggling widow with a family of children to support, or to make brighter and easier the last days of some unfortunate old and feeble person whose strength Is no longer equal to struggle in the battle of life." The receipts of the society for the year ending Oct. 31, 1P00. were $2,067.31; the expenditures were $2,02U0, leaving a balance on hand of $7.41. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Rev. M. B. Haines; first vlco president. Mgr. August Bessonies; vice presidents, Joseph K. Lilly, S. N. Gold, Mrs. Julius Goodhart, John P. Frenzel. A. A. Barnes, the Rev. Joseph A. Mllburn, W. P. l'ishback, E. C. Atkins, John II. Baker, John P. Hawkins, the Rev. II. C. Meserve, the Rev. C. E. Bacon, the Rev. lt. S. Osgood and Dr. David Ross; executive committee, George Merritt, the Rev. R. V. Hunter. II. J. Milllgan, E. B. Martlndale, II. II. Hanna and Charles B. Stllz; finance committee, J. II. Holllday, C. C. Van Camp. C. E. Coffin, Dr. J. B. Thompson and C. C. Foster; treasurer, Volney T. Malott; secretary, Charles W. Moores. , , The annual meeting of the Charity Organization Society will be held to-day at 4:13 o'clock in Room 1 Plymouth building. TAX-PAYING TIME. Ily New System There la No Crowding In Trctmnrer's Ofllcc. It is now fall tax-paying time and half of the rush week has passed, yet the crowds in the county treasurer's ofllce have not Indicated that this is the busy season of the year. This Is not because people are tardy about paying their taxes, but because of the rapid system Treasurer Armin Koehne has Inaugurated. So far, the payments are thought to bo In excess of the average payments at this time of the year, but the clerical forco has shown no marks of fatigue. The prime cause of this improved condition is the adoption of the counting maehln'. II. B. Smith, the cashier, has had yeaiv of experience in banks, is an export In ills line and handles cash with much nonchalance. Bast ftaturd y was th "tot" day he has had this fall. On that day 1.411 different persons paid taxes and he paid out 514 warrants. The machine does the work of four or live men. Is absolutely reliable, and Mr. Smith can take the money as fast a the machine counts it up. This rapid method keeps the crowd almost continually on tho move and the old jam, before the machine waa used, la no more.

TRUTH FROM SOLDIER

LIEUT. CUV A. DOYLE TALKS ON THE PHILIPPINES. He Sayn the Islanders Are m Yet Ab olutely I'nfit 'for SelfGoTfrnment. BRIGANDS WOULD BE IN POWER IF BRYAN COULD CARRY OUT HIS THREAT AND RECALL Alt MY. Enthusiastic Meeting of Third Ward Colored Men Addressed by W. S. Taylor, F. E. Matson and Others. General John Coburn, James A. Collins and Lieutenant Guy A. Boyle, who recently returned from the Philippines, spoke at the O. P. Morton Club last night. The hall was filled with veterans and men of mature age, most of them members of tha club. Mr. Collins was the first speaker, and he Intelligently dfscussed the issues of the campaign from his own standpoint, that of" a young man. Lieutenant Boyle, having just returned from the Philippines, interest naturally centered in what he had to say regarding the conditions In those islands and the subject of expansion. Lieutenant Boyle said there Is now only a semblance of the organization the Filipinos formerly had. No organized movement confronts the soldiers, and what they have to face is a continual guerrilla warfare. In his opinion the Filipinos are not capable of self-government, and if it were left to a vote of the representative men of the race, they would have conditions remain as they are. In part he said: "From what I have seen of the Filipinos there is no question In my mind that they would gladly lay down their arms and become citizens of tho United States had they tho assurance of protection from the robber bandits that roam over the island. Were it put to a vote, 1 am satisfied all would be content to remain under our protection and leave matters unchanged. NOT PREPARED. "The Filipinos are not prepared for selfgovernment, I care not what Mr. Bryan may say, or any of his followers. Some of them are educated, while the great masses are ignorant. There is not enough wisdom among those people to conduct a government for themselves. A small amount of wisdom in an entire race is even more dangerous than If they had none, for th leaders and educated ones are better able to take advantage of the ignorant and weak. Education is not general enough to hold these men In check. "Now I would like to say a word regarding what Mr. Bryan says of recognizing the Filipinos and their . leaders as independent, and their island as a nation. That is something wo cannot do under the circumstances for the same reason that General Otis refused to confer witn Aguinaldo and his officers as representatives of a government. They have no government and the general would not give them an audience. Tm?y came to him as officials demanding certain concessions and not to discyss their condition with due candor, such as would have placed them on the higher and better plane and made them real leaders among their people. They came as officers "of their government when they did not have any. "A word as to the attitude of the Democratic party in this country and its influence upon the native belligerents of the Philippine islands. You all know what General Lawton once said about the natives getting encouragement from this country. It was certainly true. I am not charging that Bryan aids the Filipinos direct, but this pledging of 'moral support' has practically the same effect. The position of the papers supporting him is Nknown in the Philippines and it cannot but help to give the Filipinos encouragement to fight our own soldiers. They are all familiar with the statement Bryan is quoted as making, 'If I am elected President of the United States the first thing 1 will do will be to call a special session cf Congress and recall the army and navy from the Philippines and give them a government of their own.' e IP TROOPS WERE WITHDRAWN. "If the troops were withdrawn and the Filipinos were given their liberty, Aguinaldo and his officers would assume control of the government. What kind of government could they give? These officials are not honest; they have no conscience, and the administration they would give would be the fruits of Spanish tutelage. Yes; it would be worse than when the islands were under Spanish rule. The ambition of the leaders of the insurrection is to get control of everything on the island, and then they would carry on the government with a high hand and tyrannize and browbeat as they were taught by the Spanish rulers. "While I have been in the islands I have talked with many of the natives, learning to speak their Language. The peaceful natives are at work, prosperous as they never were before, and recognize the protection of the American soldiers. These are the class that have sought protection. The lnsurrectos are nothing but brigands and bandits, and were they to get control of the government, which they certainly would if the troops were withdrawn, they would kill off all those who have sought protection from us. The good citizens would be at their mercy, and that mercy is slaughter. "It has been said the islands are not worth holding. That depends upon how you look at it. I have seen gardens of vegetables as fine as can bo found In this country, and there is abundance in other crops. The ports are open and doing more exporting than they ever did. The country has never known such prosperity and the natives are accumulating savings they never before knew." CORNERED SILVER. Lieutenant Boyle then talked about the money system in the islands. It has been in a deplorable condition, and he told how two or three banks in Manila cornered silver, that being the standard money, in a few days, and depreciated gold 8 cents. The government officials of this country compelled them to relinquish this hold, restore the original ratio, and since then there have been no such difficulties. This illustration he used to show how easily the money market can be manipulated .when men are left free to tamper with the standard. He said the soldiers in the islands wanted to come home because it was home; they would like to see their relatives and friends, but they see their duty there, and not one would forsake It. To show howloyal the soldiers in that country have betn he told of several volunteer regiments that had already boarded a transport, given up their arms and were getting ready to sail when a town of peaceful natives was attacked by insurgents and they disembarked nnd took up the fight again, although they had been mustered out and were no longer soldiers. They held the town until other troops arrived, when they again boarded their transport and sailed for home. General Coburn closed with a characteristic speech full of points and wit. He said David B. Hill reminded him of a lawyer at the bar arguing a demurrer in a bail case, thinking all the time he ought not to get a decision his way, but he must stand by his client. Judge Henry Clay Allen will address the club to-morrow night upon "Voting." Hi.i address will ?x in the nature of a lesson n how to vote and the interpretation of the election law. nie; Mcr.Tixr, held. perche Made by W. S. TIor, F. 12. Matsou and Others. A splendid meeting of the Third ward colored voters was held last night at 1220 North Senate avenue. Fully were present, and ex-Governor W. S. Taylor was the principal speaker. He dwelt at length upon the fine record of the McKinley-administration in the fulfillment of Its prom

ises and the great ami widespread prosperity that has resulted. Referring to the policy in the Philippines, he said that schools are being opened, railroads aro being constructed, and that Bibles are being sold there at the rate of 12.000 a month. He pointed out that wherever the American Hag has gone the word of God has -followed, and that wherever the Bible has gone liberty and freedom and opportunity for the individual has followed as the necessary product of civilization. He then exposed the inconsistency of the Bryn Democracy in criticising our poiicy in the Philippines while they are themselves depriving the colored' citizens of their rights in the South. Frederick E, Matson, Republican candidate for state senator, was then introduced. He said In part: "The colored citizen Is 'independent' when he votes according to his interest, like any other man. He is independent when he votes for prosperity. He is independent when he votes for the party that is preserving his liberty in every State where it has control. But when he votes for the Democratic party, which is disfranchising him and depriving him of all the rights which came to him from the civil war in every State where that party has control, he is no longer independent because he is selling his birthright for a mess of pottage." Mr. Matson then pointed out that Republican control in the State and Legislature is quite as important to the colored man as Republican control In national affairs; that the Goebel law In Kentucky, which deprives the citizen of having his vote counted a3 it is cast, resulted from Democratic control of the State and Legislature, and the same is true in those States where negroes have been disfranchised and reduced to practical slavery again; and that the reason why the Democrats are now telling the colored voters to vote for McKinley but to help out John Kern and their county ticket Is because they want control of the State and Legislature. Mr. Matson closed by asking the audience if they wanted the Democrats to control the State and Legislature of Indiana, as they control North Carolina, and the chorus of "noes" indicated that Democratic tricks to elect their county and state tickets will dismally fail. x John McGaughy, Republican candidate for county commissioner, and Pearson Mendenhall, candidate for township trustee, were introduced and spoke briefly. James T. Layman, a legislative candidate, was also heard.

THE STATE'S GOOD YEAR VARIOUS STATE INSTITUTIONS HAVE BEEN WELL MANAGED. AH Except One, Whone Appropriation IVna Rcdnced, Return Money to the Trensnry. Yesterday was the close of the fiscal year for the various offices of the Stafe and the State institutions. The year has been most successful one, and more money. representing unexpended appropriations, has been turned back into the treasury than ever before. With the exception of the Indiana Industrial School for Girls and Woman's Prison of this city, whose appropriation was reduced last year, none of the institutions has exceeded its appropriation. There ha been $3,000 returned to the treasury from the sheriffs mileage fund; $7,000 has been refunded from the $15,000 ap propriated for equipping prisoners discharged from the northern and southern prisons, and $5,000 has been refunded from the $10,000 appropriation for paroled pris oners. Of the $4,000 contingent fund allowed the Governor only $103 has been spent. Thereport of Attorney General Taylor shovfc that he has collected $60,000 during the year, of which $33.205.11 was collected from the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company and $20,SSS.16 from the Chicago & Southeastern Railroad Company. Under the law the State Institutions were allowed additional appropriations per capita on each inmate over a certain number, as follows: The Northern Hospital for the Insane, $318.27; the Central Hospital for the Insane, $16,711.24; the Eastern Hospital for the Insane, $7,262.72; the Southern Hos pital for the Insane, $3,315.98; the Institute for the Education of the Deaf, $2,814.48. It is said that the State institutions have been better managed this year than ever before. FIRST CHAMBER CONCERT PHILHARMONIC STRING QUARTET AT PROPYLAEU3I. The ProR-ramme Enjoyed by the Audience Programme of Mat lnee Muslcale. The first chamber concert of the Philharmonic String Quartet, given at the Propylaeum last night, was very largely attended. The quartet, which is composed oi Mr. nugh McGlbenj-, first violin; Miss Bertha Schellschmidt, second violin; Mr. Rudolph Köster, viola, and Mr. Adolph Schellschmidt, violoncello, played Rubenstein's Op. 17 in C minor and Mendelssohn's Op. 44 in G major, with four movements in each part. Between the first and second parts Mr. Earl Percy Parks, of Martinsville, who is the possessor of a splendid baritone, sang the cavatina from "Faust" 8nd the Bedouin Love Song. Every number of the quartet pleased, and at the conclusion of each the performers were vigorously applauded. The playing possessed magnificent tone quality and the shading and phrasing of the four bows was most delightful. At times some of the best effects were lost cn account of tho bad accoustic properties or th hall. Tho singing of Mr. Parks gave unusual pleasure and both his numbers were so warmly applauded that he was compelled to sing encores. JIATINKE MUSICALE. An Enjoyable Programme at the Propylnenm. The second division of the Matinee Muslcale gave a delightful programme yesterday afternoon at the Propylaeum, consisting of numbers by German composers of to-day. The numbers without exception were admirably executed. The programme rendered was as follows: "Ouvertüre zu Sakuntala"..Carl Goldmark Miss Swain, Mrs. Crosley, Mrs. Roberts and Miss McKenna. a. "Am Kreuzweg wird Begraben'.... A. Von Fielltz b. "Die Loreley" August Belngerl Miss Josephine Hyde. "Ilegrets"-Op. 53, No. 11 Habervicr "Reproaches" Op. 53. No. 12 Habevier "Poeme dWmour" Hans Sitt "Nameless leaves" No. 7 Hans Sltt "Allegro" Op. 41, No. 2 Bargioi "Presto" O". 41. No. 6 Bargicl Miss Sarah T. Meigs. a. "Sehn Sucht" Heinrich Hoffman b. "Ich Kannst Nicht Sagen" A. Von Fielltz Mrs. Fremont Swain. Valse Caprice Edward Schutt Miss Anna McKenzie. Serenade Stadchen Henri Deriny Mrs. Ida Gray Scott. Flute solo Fragments aus "Hansel und Gretel" Humperdinck Mrs. B. M. Gundellinger. Duet "Those Odors Delicious" "Hansel und Gretel" Humperdinck Miss Lulu Fisher and Mrs. H. H. Howland. Tarentelle Moi-zkowski Mrs. Vincent Clifford. The Matinee Muslcale has secured Mrs. Gertrude May Stein for the artists' recital on Nov. 14, and all members arc requested to secure membership tickets before that date. Prath tif Eldrldrrr Hnrrlx. A letter from Lieutenant It. C Day, ?f the Thirty-fourth Volunteer Infantry, doing service in the Philippines, to Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Harri, of 557 West Thirteenth street, confirms the reported death of their t-on Eldrldgo Harris on Sept. 1. In tit? telegraphic reports of the killed appeared r. name similar to that of their son. but the 1 '6 rents thought it was anothtr man. Harris waa twenty years of age. and t-nlUtod in this city about a year ago.

UR. BURKE'S RAVINGS

HE KEPT HIS AUDITORS IS A CONSTANT STATE OF UNEASINESS They Did Not Knorr at What Moment He Would Say "Something Terrible EULOGY OF GEN. HARRISON HIGH TRIBUTE THAT WAS HARD FOH DEMOCRATS TO SWALLOW. : A Most Unutnal and Amusing Hodge Podge of Up-to-Dnte IoHtical Comedy. Frank B. Burke, Democratic candidate for Congress in the Seventh district, narrowly missed having a large audience at his meeting In English's Opera House last night, which its promoters declared beforehand would be one of the biggest affairs of the entire campaign. The ieoplethat occupied seats in the theater, If reinforced by the marchers who paraded through the aisles with ear-spllttlng din of drums and bugles, would have sufficed to fill the balcony and first floor. Marchers in Democratic processions,, however, possess an inherent dislike for speech-making particularly this year and those of last night continued their progress until they found themselves In the outer air and remained there. When Mr. Burke rose to speak the first floor was well filled, the balcony contained possibly 200 people, white a solitary spectator, in his shirt sleeves, looked down from the dark and gloomy gallery'. Plenty of chairs on the stage awaited occunnts throughout the evening. When Mr. Burke came upon the stage he was accompanied by County Chairman Thomas L. Sullivan, John W. Kern, Democratic candidate for Governor, and George A. Byrd, who was afterward made permanent chairman of the meeting. Soon after a number of prominent party leaders put in their appearance, followed bv a few of the march ers, and took their seats to the rear of tha speakers. The presence of State Chairman Parks M. Martin, Secretary Hosea Hawkins and Assistant Secretary Harry Gates was noticed. BURKE'S LAME CHAMPION. Judge Sullivan announced that Mr. Byrd had been selected to act aa perraanent chairman because he had been in the Stata Legislature at the same time Mr. BurUe was a member of the Senate, and was, therefore, in a position to know Mr. Burke's legislative labor record and refute the, statements made in Mr. Littleton's pampniet, wnicn nas proven sucn a stumbling block in Mr. Burke's congressional canvass. Mr. Byrd took up very few of Mr. Littleton's assertions In order to controvert them possibly from lack of time. He declared that Senator Burke was opposed to the Introduction of Pinkerton detectives into the State and championed tha anti-Pinkerton bill. In an attempt to answer Mr. Littleton's charge that Senator Burke opposed the coemployes liability bill, Mr. Byrd said that Mr. Burke Introduced in place of it a substitute to which the House would not at the time agree, but which the next Legislature adopted, with the interpolation, however, of only a few sections. The speaker as-, serted vehemently that the railroad men of Indiana owe to Senator Burke a debt of gratitude they can never repay, to which a man on the stage responded: "What do we owe Frank Burke?" This same lndlidual made several Interruptions, and was shortly surrounded by three or four Democrats of stronger faith, who labored with him heroically to "swing him into line." In lieu of going through the Littleton pamphlet Item by item, Mr, Byrd dismissed the other charges thus: "If there be a Democrat in this audience that is dissatisfied with Senator Burke's labor record I would like him to come to me, rather than be guided by the garbled information and Inuendoes of a railroad lawyer who is rot in touch with the laboring masses. And I assure you that if there be one discontented and unsatisfied Democrat A voice: '1 am dissatisfied.' I will stop my work and to the best of my ability answer any question propounded to me upon any subject' connected with the Senate of ISO or 1S91." Mr. Byrd then presented Mr. Burke as the principal speaker of the evening, designating him as "the orator, the scholar, the statesman and the peerless Democrat." KEPT THEM GUESSING. With characteristic blundering Mr. Burke delivered an address that kept his audience " wondering the greater part of the time whether they were listening to a Democrat or a Republican. General Harrison was lauded to the skies repeatedly, the speaker saying every thing but "Vote the way Harrison will vote," and indeed tome of the leaders on the stage looked uneasily at each other as if fearful the limit of the Burke folly mlsht be reached. At the outset he perpetrated this choice bit: A Di fin v.t uric nie uuc menu ui i ui'iiai. I stand here as the champion of men. I stand upon the principle of equal und exact justice to all mn and exclusive privileges to none, and if this constituency shall give mc their confidence, when I rise to speak in the national Congress Jn behalf of the human race throughout the world I will not voIch the sentiments of Hugh H. Hanna. of a bank trust and when the conscience and judgment of my people rise and protest against a constitutional eintrage I shall not insult their intelligence by telling them that they do not understand." Mr. Burke here launched into a repetition of his well-known diatribe on the subject of the Porto Rican tariff, in the course of which he indulged In the cheap wit of Faying that he did not know whethtr the Democrats in this campaign arc fighting Hanna Republicans, Mount Republicans, McKinley Republicans, Bcverldge Itepu'llcans or Fairbanks Republicans asserting that all these men hold different views or have held such views. lie Fioke briefly on the issue of trusts, declaring thnt they ara the only kinds of business that have enjoyed prosperity under McKinley. He saiJ John W. Gates has made so much money In the last four years that he mounted the Eiffel Tower and scattered handfuls of it to tho people beneath. Mr. Burke was good enough to rejoice in the settlement of the Pennsylvania coal strike, but said com plalnlrigly, "I usk why did it ever start?" He declare 1 that. hlle he would not chip the Mnalleat piece of stone from the mansion of J. Pierp'jnt Morgan, he did propose, if elected to Congress, to change the law that have made it possible for Mr. Morgan to control the destinies of n million human beings. The speaker declared that Mr. W. D. Foulke. Whlttiaw Held. Cabot Lodge, the Indianapolis Journal, the Indianapolis News and the Indianapolis Press are all telling the people that "the great Declaration of Independence never wa true, never was Intended to be true, and in all probability never would be true." EULOGIZED GEN. HARRISON. "And men, men. my fellow-countrymen, criticise General Harrison," continued Mr. Burke, "bvcaufcc he has not come out ar.d made seeches in defense of that gang of American political pirates. Why, who ta General llarrl?cn? I am u Hooslcr, I am proud that I was born in the State. I m proud tu live in a State that rtcoxnlzet General Harrison us it foremost citizen. Why, he has blood in ills veins, althounii people Kay that he is cold-blood d. He has the blood of Harrison In his veins, he bears the panic of Benjamin Harrison. He traces his llr.eajre back through the terntorlal history of Indiana and of the Unh-d State up until tht 4th of July, 17T3. General Harrison has Mood In hu veins th.it